Part of the Las Américas city-wide music festival, Edmar Castañeda (harp) has taken the world’s stage by storm with the sheer force of his virtuosic command. “The Colombian plays the harp like hardly anyone else on earth. His hands, seemingly powered by two different people, produce a totally unique, symphonic fullness of sound, a rapid-fire of chords, balance of melodic figures and drive, served with euphoric Latin American rhythms, and the improvisatory freedom of a trained jazz musician . . . captivating virtuosity, but in no way only virtuosity for its own sake.” –Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung